In praise of helpful readers

Blogging has been a little difficult at this conference, as my iPad keyboard doesn't always cooperate when the hotel wifi gets sluggish, but I'm going to say nice things about the peer reviewers from one scholarly journal: they managed to a) be encouraging and b) identify the holes in the historical background that I knew were there, but as a non-historian, wasn't really able to identify for myself. So three cheers for professional peer reviewers.  (Now I have more books to read, but that's the academic condition.)